There are several key technology tendencies that will impact the future of access control and ID management. Comprehending these trends will help you much better serve your customers and improve your access control profits as part of a broader services business.

Deeper Convergence of Physical and Logical Security

The future unity of physical and logical security is an definite certainty and the unity is already underway. For example, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) has long been the main model for access control in the IT world of logical security and today this structure is reflected in the design of leading access control systems, because it considerably reduces the cost of access management.

Another example is functional unity, which is clearly the most efficient way for IT and facility security to share a common operating process for managing hazards across the enterprise. This type of unity treats access to a facility the same way organizations treat access to information, improving procedures and controls in both areas by protecting against illogical access.

Today, a community of visionary practitioners have physical and logical security technology effortlessly integrated to increase performance and ROI. This approach will grow to be an important aspect of the industry’s future.

Security vendors and integrator's must be prepared to deliver a more complete converged access control system that effortlessly integrates IT and physical security systems, such as Identity Access Management (IAM), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and HR systems to link physical and logical security function information, monitor alarms and rapidly respond to unauthorized actions.

Access Control “as-a-Service”

Budget restrictions and a growing unwillingness to make investments in expensive servers and IT infrastructure are driving enterprises towards a need for access control services. For security dealers and integrator's, this implies that in order to contend, they must move beyond what legacy access control systems and traditional designs can deliver. Access control “as-a-Service” will continue to appear as the de-facto delivery model because it gives clients better pricing and flexibility as a hosted or managed service than common in-house installations. Access control “as-a-Service” also helps vendors and integrator's bring the benefits of access control to new customers that could not formerly budget for these services.

Access control “as-a-Service” delivers a new approach to distribution of access control and ownership of the network equipment, as it enables vendors and integrator's to manage all aspects of building access control for their customers as an online, monthly membership service. Vendors and integrator's are freed from up-front capital charges and equipment costs through the ability to purchase the network appliance on a flexible, annual subscription or lease-to-own basis. As a result, integrator's truly own their customer accounts by basically selling access to their own network appliance, rather than launching an access control manufacturers’ servers to their customer’s atmosphere.

Peer-to-Peer Replication

Although peer-to-peer duplication has been prevalent on the IT side, it will play a developing role in physical security. Duplicating across physical security and IT security systems has, traditionally, been a complex and costly idea due to varying requirements from different business groups within an organization. Peer-to-peer replication frees companies from the financial and resource pressure of maintaining independent database servers at each facility or manually upgrading and duplicating employee information on site. As a result, security vendors and integrator's will be able to increasingly leveraging converged access control solutions that consist of a built-in peer-to-peer structure that syncs HR employee systems to network appliances and door controllers in real-time.

Shift from Proprietary to Open Hardware

Many security vendors and integrator's know all too well the pain of informing a customer that their access control system supplier went out of business and their door controllers are amazing and do not work with other software. When door controlling hardware typically makes up between 50 to 80 percent of the whole access control systems cost, a discussion is difficult and can leave the dealer/systems integrator with mud on their face. That is why leading access control manufacturers continue to voice support for standard, open (reusable) door controlling hardware.

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